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Helping Your Child Achieve their potential

Discover effective ways to involve parents in their child's homework and create a conducive study environment. Help your child develop organizational skills and learn effective study techniques.

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Helping Your Child Achieve their potential

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  1. Helping Your Child Achieve their potential

  2. “Coming together is a beginning, Keeping together is progress, Working together is success.” Henry Ford

  3. Research Shows • Parent involvement in children's learning is positively related to achievement. • The more intensively parents are involved in their children's learning, the more beneficial are the achievement effects. • The most effective forms of parent involvement are those which engage parents in working directly with their children on learning activities in the home.

  4. Homework

  5. Purpose of Homework • Review and practice what was taught • Learn to use resources –revision sites, websites, reference books • Explore subjects more fully than class time permits. • Applying skills learned to new situations. • Integrate different skills learned into a single task (project/book report). • Teach students to work independently. • Encourage self-discipline and responsibility. • REVISION OF SUBJECTS.

  6. Homework Tips for Parents Help your child choose a homework drop spot for completed homework – always put completed assignments in the same spot. Set up a study area – have child do homework in the same spot every night. Create a homework survival kit – keep all supplies in the study spot. • pencils, pens, writing paper, colored pencils, markers, crayons, ruler, pencil sharpener, erasers, glue, tape, construction paper, stapler, hole punch, scissors, paper clips, index cards, folders, dictionary, planner. • .

  7. Homework Tips for Parents cont. Encourage your child to do homework independently – this will teach them develop independence skills such as how to follow directions, begin and complete a task, manage time. Monitor that homework is being done – only give help if child has shown a real effort to do the work first. Motivate your child with praise. Each night praise your child about some specific accomplishment – focus on a goal they have set.

  8. Homework Tips for Parents cont. Have your child take necessary breaks – study 20 minutes, take 5 minute break. Step back if you feel yourself losing your temper or patience. Don’t let your frustration make your child feel stupid for not understanding. Schedule daily homework time – same time each night - be sure all other activities stop at this time

  9. Organisation

  10. Organising Your Young persons home studying • Have they got an area dedicated to their homework and revision? – needs to be a space they can leave things out in and not have it moved? • Do you and your young person have access to the Learning Gateway? – all homework and revision is posted here and updated with when it is completed • How does your young person record homework? • notebook, phone calendar, photograph work set?

  11. Study Environment(should be comfortable, but not too relaxing) • Place: • Choose a place where you are able to write neatly and stay alert. • Study in the same place every day. • Light: • Use good overhead lighting that is not too dim but not so bright that you must squint. • Sound: • Find a quiet place where you aren’t interrupted by others, the radio or TV, or other noises. • Temperature: • Find a comfortable spot where you are not too hot or too cold. Where is your study spot? Does it meet the criteria above?

  12. Organisational Tools • Planner • Binder • Folders – color coded w/books • Notebooks – color coded w/books • File tabs • Pencil case

  13. Study Skills

  14. Ways to revise… Mind-maps Index/flash cards Past papers Memory skills Look/cover/write/check Posters Record Games and quizzes Websites Group revision Video/audio Become a teacher

  15. Revision Techniques Flashcards For key information and facts. You can carry them around with you and test yourself anywhere. Use it to remind and test yourself on; Spellings Lists, A sequence of simple events Quantity Read-Cover-Recall-Check Read the information you want to remember. Cover it up, write out what you remember. Check to see how much you forgot. Use it to test yourself on; Spellings, Lists, A sequence of simple events Online quizzes or revision guide exam questions Answer the questions, note down your score, revise the topic some more, have another go at the questions later. Did you improve? Use it to test yourself on; Simple scientific facts and processes Make a card sort Make a set of cards that you can cut out, mix up and match. Use them; When you need to remember pieces of information that go together. Key word cards Include definitions on the back. You can test yourself on the definitions, sort them into scientifically relevant categories, put them into a sequence. Describe or explain a process/scenario to someone who does not know it or a classmate. They can ask questions to fill in any gaps you missed and if they are also revising it may help them understand the work better. Use it when; Explaining a series of events or a process that has some detail Graphic organisers Decide if you are describing, analysing parts, comparing, analysing cause and effect, predicting or evaluating and display your arguments in a graphic organiser. Use it to; look at topics in more detail. Mind maps Start with a central theme and organise the information from it, grouped into subtopics. Label the branches with the relationships. To summarise a whole topic after revising it in detail. Only put in the key words, everything else should come to mind when you read it. Past exam questions and analysis Complete some past exam questions. Mark your answers. Fill in the answers you missed. Go through the paper and colour code each topic (Red-need to revise, Amber-Need to go over a few bits again, Green-I’ve got it) Use it to test your ability to; recall the information you have revised, to answer the question asked, not just write down everything you know, to follow the command words in an exam. Qual ity

  16. What is a mind-map? People often think spider-diagrams are the same as mind-maps… but that’s a bit like saying these are the same…

  17. Go further!  http://braintest.sommer-sommer.com/en/

  18. Why are mind-maps useful? Mind-maps help bring the left and right sides of the brain together… I love you left brain… I love you right brain…

  19. Art of mind-mapping

  20. Why are mind-maps useful? Remembering and revising Planning out ideas for writing Planning out ideas for presentations STOPPING THIS! 

  21. Learning Styles: • Visual – learn by seeing • Auditory – learn by hearing • Kinesthetic – learn by doing Everyone learns differently – study in ways that are most helpful to your child!

  22. Visual Learners • Highlight or underline main ideas. • Make an outline or map of main ideas. • To study for a test, do something you can see – lists, drawing, copying words, etc. • Use index cards to make flashcards – separate into “know” and “don’t know” piles, play memory game, etc. • Use a computer or draw on a chalkboard as you study. • Use assignment book to write down assignments daily, • Never watch TV while you are studying!

  23. Auditory Learners • Read aloud instead of silently. • Tape record items to study and play the information back – recite along with tape. • Use music to help you learn – put information to a tune you know or make up a song or poem. • Have another person quiz you and review information aloud. • Study in a quiet place with no distractions.

  24. Kinesthetic Learners • Use objects (like coins, beans, blocks, etc.) to help you understand math. • Trace spelling or vocabulary words in sand or salt or use magnetic letters to spell words out on fridge. • Use maps, globes, puzzles to study history and geography. • “Teach” the information you must learn to someone else using a chalkboard to write or draw the information. • Have someone talk through the information with you while you do something active: shoot baskets, jump rope, walk around, etc. • Take breaks often during study time. • Have adult help you develop a system to stay organized.

  25. Reading Directions Carefully Taking Objective Tests Matching True-False Completion Multiple Choice Taking Essay Tests Note-taking Strategies Mind Mapping Outlining Listening Skills Verbal cues Presentation cues Memorisation Techniques Test-taking Strategies

  26. Parents Can Help with Study Skills • Help child manage time to complete assignments – discuss steps needed for longer assignments – help them get started on big assignments. • Give practice tests. • Help avoid last minute cramming – review nightly with your child. • Talk with your child about how to take a test. • Read instructions carefully • Keep track of time • Do easy ones first • Don’t spend too much time on one question

  27. Parents Can Help with Study Skills • Talk about assignments. • Do they understand what to do? • Do they need help in understanding the assignment? • Do they have everything needed for assignment? • Does the answer make sense? • Watch for frustration. • Give constructive criticism. • Praise and encourage!!

  28. True success comes only when you make a commitment to be excellent.

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